Witnesses to the Light
“Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely,
and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us.”
—Hebrews 12:1 (RSV2CE)
This page gathers the Catholic saints honored through our work.
Each is remembered in a silent tribute video — shaped by Scripture, sacred art, and prayer to the saint.
We do not write their biographies.
We remember their lives through Scripture and art — and we ask their intercession.
Cloud of Witnesses
— Catholic Saints in Traditional Sacred Imagery
These are silent Catholic tributes — visual prayers to forgotten or lesser-known saints for spiritual strength,
including saints removed from or no longer listed in the Roman calendar.
This work began in silence — and it remains there.
We do not write biographies. We are not hagiographers. A proper life of a saint takes years of study, spiritual insight, and careful care. Others have done that work well. We will attempt to repeat it, or copy what already exists.
What we offer is something different: a return to reverence.
Each tribute is shaped by sacred tradition — Scripture, traditional art, and prayer. We do not explain the saints. We remember them through Scripture, image and silence
—and we ask their intercession.
Most of the saints we begin with are lesser known. Not because they are less holy — but because they are less remembered. These are prayers to the lesser-known saints of the Church. Not unpopular by any fault of their own, but quietly forgotten in time — or pushed aside by fashion and simplification.
Some of the saints we honor were once central to the Church’s life — and were later removed, forgotten. Alcuin of York was venerated for centuries. He was the teacher of kings, the preserver of liturgy and learning, the builder of Catholic Europe.
This is our answer: to honor the saints by emembering what should never have been lost.— especially the lesser-known, the forgotten, the quietly radiant — not because they need us, but because we need them. Because they were not canonized for their popularity, but for their holiness.
Each saint is honored in a single page: a silent video, a sacred portrait, and a written prayer — free to copy and share.
New witnesses will be added slowly, as the work unfolds.
“Your saints are not silent… Your saints are alive. They are the guarantors of your past and of your future.”
—Pope St. John Paul II, Address to the Youth of Czechoslovakia, Velehrad, 1990
“All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity. Many have gone before us along this path of Gospel heroism, and I urge you to turn often to them to pray for their intercession.”
—Pope St. John Paul II, Letter to the Youth of the World, 1985
St. Dymphna, Virgin and Martyr
Patron of our silence, defender of the soul against the world’s disorder.
She was the first we honored — and through her, this work was begun. She stood against madness, and in her, we take our stand as well.
In a time of confusion and unraveling, she reminds us to hold fast: to sanity, to stillness, and to the natural order God has written into the world.
May she guard what follows.
Glory to God in the highest!
All images created by Faith and Verse. Please do not use, reproduce, or distribute without permission.